Braxton Bragg

☧ | Eagerly awaiting the Beatific Vision | Member of @CastleviewIndy | M.Div student at @indytheosem

[Braxton Bragg @braxton_bragg4]

By spreading our case before God, with a particular representation of our wants and burdens, we teach ourselves to value the mercy we are in pursuit of.

- Matthew Henry

[Braxton Bragg @braxton_bragg4]

Since the Father’s promise to us has finally been fulfilled and the divine spiritual light has shone on us, we now know his glory “in the face of Christ.”

- Cyril of Alexandria

[60 Minutes @60Minutes]

"There are no maverick molecules in the universe," says Ben Sasse. https://t.co/Tem7ihHlik

[Braxton Bragg @braxton_bragg4]

Father in heaven,

May the reality of your eternal kingdom so grip our lives, shape our values, and fire our imaginations that we will use the time you have gifted us in this life to lay up treasures in the next. For the glory of your Son, Jesus Christ. Amen.

- Gilbert Lennox

[Braxton Bragg @braxton_bragg4]

Mid toil and tribulation,
  And tumult of her war,
She waits the consummation
  Of peace for evermore;
Till, with the vision glorious,
  Her longing eyes are blest,
And the great Church victorious
  Shall be the Church at rest.

- The Church’s One Foundation

[Braxton Bragg @braxton_bragg4]

"they shall see his face” (Rev. 22:4). This is the face of God that ne one in mortal life could see and survive (Exod. 33:20-23; Jude: 6:22-23), but to see which is the deepest human religious aspiration, to be realized only beyond this mortal life.

- Richard Bauckham

[Braxton Bragg @braxton_bragg4]

@jstephentrotter Are you aware of anything else of his being translated and published in English in the near future, beyond what’s already available through Davenant?

[Braxton Bragg @braxton_bragg4]

"Only grace sets in order what creation has given, so that virtues are nothing else than ordered affections."

- Bernard of Clairvaux, On Grace & Free Choice, 72-73.

[Oren Martin @orenrmartin]

Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection, not in books alone but in every leaf in springtime.

—Luther

[Sgt. Omer Mayer @SgtMayer17]

Mother —

A victory, never in doubt. The officiants proved most trying, yet we endured. The Sweet feeling now turns Elite. Celebration is brief as we observe the next engagement to learn our foe. Survive. Advance. Keep dancing.

Yours — OM

[Braxton Bragg @braxton_bragg4]

Did you imagine that you create your own merits, that you can be saved by your own righteousness, who cannot even say ‘Jesus is Lord’ without the Holy Spirit?

- Bernard of Clairvaux, On Grace & Free Choice, pg. 54

[Braxton Bragg @braxton_bragg4]

@glennbutner I’d be interested to read more on what you’ve written about the hypostatic union, union with Christ, and theosis.

[Glenn Butner @glennbutner]

Here’s a giveaway for Christological Dogmatics!

To enter: Retweet and comment below or in quote with something that interests you from the book. I will randomly select one winner at the end of the day Wednesday to receive a free copy! (US mainland 48 states only - sorry!)

[Braxton Bragg @braxton_bragg4]

Time to see what Bernard is all about!

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[Braxton Bragg @braxton_bragg4]

Total dependence on God’s grace does not mean no dependence on God’s means or grace.

- John Piper

[Braxton Bragg @braxton_bragg4]

“There is ‘one Lord, Jesus Christ,” as Paul says, both before the flesh and with the flesh. And the Word of God the Father is the one and only true Son, even when he became human…for the body is his own, and to divide him at all…is not without its share of blasphemy.”

- Cyril

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“Observe how [Jesus] appears as a human being and with flesh, he does not say, ‘in me is the light,’ but ‘I am the light.’ That is so no one divides Christ into a pair of sons after the oikonomia of the incarnation.”

- Cyril of Alexandria, Commentary on John, 1:318

[Braxton Bragg @braxton_bragg4]

“The same divine glory that would have been fatal to Moses on contact (Ex 33:20) now comes into the hearts of those pardoned by Christ (John 1:14; 2 Pet 1:4).
- Timothy Keller

[Braxton Bragg @braxton_bragg4]

“When we look at Jesus Christ as he is shown to us in the Scriptures, we are looking at the glory of God through the filter of a human nature.”
- Timothy Keller